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SQUASH AUSTRALIA E-NEWSLETTER | Nov '19 Enter a short description of your email. This text may be shown during preview. View this message online SQUASH AUSTRALIA E-NEWSLETTER | Nov '19 CHANGES ANNOUNCED ON SQUASH AUSTRALIA BOARD Squash Australia has announced two new directors to the board of Squash Australia following the 2019 Squash Australia Annual General Meeting on the Gold Coast on Sunday, November 24. They are Matt Schmidt from South Australia and Adam Carter from Queensland. Adam and Matt as new Board members follows the re-election of Chris Sinclair, and the departures of David Mandel as Squash Australia President and Directors Michelle Martin and Dale Robins. Squash Australia Chief Executive Officer Richard Vaughan welcomes Matt and Adam to the board and commented "I would like thank Dale, Michelle and especially David as President for their outstanding commitment the past five to six years. The sport has increased participation rates from 110,000 to over 180,000, we have held two successfully World Championships, more than doubled our turnover and improved the capability and reputation of the sport." Mr Vaughan says. Read the full story via the following link - http://bit.ly/2Dma0O6 Check out the latest video from Squash Australia CEO Richard Vaughan highlighting the success of Squash in Australia over the past 12-months. ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Squash Australia is pleased to release its Annual Report for 2019. Highlights from the report include: - Successful launch of the Squash Girls Can Launch at Parliament House with support from Peta Murphy Member for Dunkley. - The opening of the National Squash Centre in Carrara - Eight medals and successful hosting of the World Doubles - Hosting of a great World coaches conference Highlights from the CEO Financial Report include: - Funding from Sport Australia has increased by 134% from $740,000 in 2016 to $1,731,000 in 2019 - Grants were up $673,463 (40.2%) from $1,004,626 to $1,678,089; - Profits for the year were $336,290, approximate $18,290 without capitalising asset additions an upgrades; - Commercial income for the period increased $183,118 (33%) from $616,264 to $799,382; Read the full report via the following link - http://bit.ly/2XechUM AJO VENUES ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT TWO YEARS Squash Australia is pleased to announce that it will host the Australian Junior Open at the National Squash Centre from July 9 to 12, 2020. Players can find more information and enter on the Squash Australia website via the following link - http://bit.ly/3545G23 Squash Australia is also pleased to announce that Devonport, Tasmania has been announced as the host for the Australian Junior Open in April 2021. Catch up on the first edition of Squash Girls Can.. 'On the Court With..' In this edition, Squash Australia catches up with Grace from Tasmania. AUSTRALIAN OPEN CONFIRMED FOR BEGA FOR NEXT THREE YEARS Squash Australia is delighted to announce that the Australian Open PSA event will be held in Bega, NSW for the next three years. The event will have equal prize money for Men and women totalling $24,000 (USD) and will be part of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Circuit. The Australian Open was successfully held on a trial basis in July 2019 and it was a huge success due to the local Bega club and tournament director John Stylianou. Squash CEO Richard Vaughan praised John and the team at Bega for the growth that they've provided for the sport and running events on a small operational team. 'We are very lucky we can rely on professionals like John and his team to carry the baton on this prestige’s Australian event for the next couple of years,' Mr Vaughan says. 'Despite the distance from a major city, the players have frequently commented about the warmth of the team running the event and that has been to the key to attracting so many foreign PSA players to the event’. Tournament Director John Stylianou says that Bega is looking forward to hosting Australia’s premier event for the next three years. We thank Squash Australia for placing their confidence in us to continue running this prestige event, over the next three years we hope to grow the event further and we can now start the hard work of planning and raising the funds to do this.’ Mr Stylianou says. The 2020 Australian Open event will be held in Bega from August Wednesday August 26 to Sunday August 30. SQUASH AUSTRALIA POSTER PACK Squash Australia is happy to launch the 2020 Poster Pack for the Squash Community with the latest Integrity, Events, Participation, and Benefits of Membership. http://www.squash.org.au/w/about-us/downloads CHECK OUT THE WJC SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS BELOW SQUASH AUSTRALIA CALENDAR - UPCOMING EVENTS December 6-8 Australian Club Championships - Carrara Australian Squash Tour Finals - Carrara 9-14 Performance Development Course - Carrara JANUARY 15-19 Gold Coast PSA Satellite - Carrara FEBRUARY 7-9 Australian National Championships - Carrara 14-16 Australian Doubles Open - Carrara © Copyright, You received this email as a customer or subscriber of Squash Australia. Click here to leave mailing list.
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